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With a rich academic experience spanning 40 years, Dr John Lodewijks

Topics: Faculty Insights

Topics: Thought Leadership, Faculty Insights

Over the past decade, the business environment of organisations around the globe has been changing at a pace that has never been seen before. How well are the world’s top universities adapting to this change, i.e., helping the organisations cope better?

Topics: Thought Leadership, Faculty Insights

Ever since the 2016 presidential elections in the USA, the role of social media in influencing voter choices has become a hot topic across the globe. The recently released Mueller Report clearly holds Russia responsible for manipulating US voters through the extensive use of social media, like Facebook and Google, thereby ensuring the victory of Donald Trump over Hillary Clinton, who was the frontrunner in the race.

Topics: Thought Leadership, Faculty Insights

Today, Blockchain has emerged as a harbinger to the financial sector for its digital transformation. As a crypto technology, it started off by enabling the most-buzzed about virtual currency, i.e. Bitcoin. However, it is now expanding its range to other sectors as well, such as energy and energy-related sectors. For example, industrial, transportation, and residential.

Topics: Blockchain, Thought Leadership, Faculty Insights

Speaking to Raghav Bansal, he said, “We had a vision of creating a 2-city undergraduate program (Singapore and Sydney) that would be unlike any the world had ever seen, and this started off with only 64 students.”

Topics: Faculty Insights

Dr CJ Meadows, Director of the Innovation & Insight Centre, SP Jain lends expertise on the workforce of tomorrow.

Topics: Thought Leadership, Faculty Insights

Topics: Careers, Thought Leadership, Faculty Insights

In many occupations, there are mandatory professional development requirements. Practitioners have to satisfy accreditation boards in terms of their self-education with respect to prescribed hours of attendance at seminars, workshops and conferences or completing on-line modules of study and various formal or internet exams. Others, for whom there are no prescribed hours of further study, are motivated and interested in ‘lifelong learning’ which has been defined as the ongoing, voluntary, and self-motivated pursuit of knowledge for either personal or professional reasons. However, what has been little studied is the extra out-of-class self-directed learning that takes place while students are formally enrolled in a full-time university course.

Topics: Thought Leadership, Faculty Insights